Title : Grounded By You
Author : Ivy Sinclair
Publication date : November 20th 2013
Genres : Contemporary, New Adult
Synopsis:
Lights, camera, and passions flare as a small town boy gets the break of his career. As the lines of life and art blur together, can he also find a way to win the love of the girl who got away?
Carter Samuel Groveson.
His name is on the lips of every woman in the country who has a pulse. An actor pulled from obscurity to star in the most anticipated movie of the century, he’s an enigma to all. Everyone wants a piece of him.
Except her.
Amelia St. John isn’t about to follow the life plan that her father set out for her. She refuses to be tied down or commit to anyone. A year ago, she ran as far and as fast from Sam Groveson as she could. But when he reappears in her life and asks her to be the friend he needs to keep him tethered to reality in the midst of the chaos, she can’t say no.
Unfortunately for Sam, his big break comes with expectations that threaten his career if he doesn’t toe the line. In this high stakes game of love, everyone is watching.
Carter Samuel Groveson.
His name is on the lips of every woman in the country who has a pulse. An actor pulled from obscurity to star in the most anticipated movie of the century, he’s an enigma to all. Everyone wants a piece of him.
Except her.
Amelia St. John isn’t about to follow the life plan that her father set out for her. She refuses to be tied down or commit to anyone. A year ago, she ran as far and as fast from Sam Groveson as she could. But when he reappears in her life and asks her to be the friend he needs to keep him tethered to reality in the midst of the chaos, she can’t say no.
Unfortunately for Sam, his big break comes with expectations that threaten his career if he doesn’t toe the line. In this high stakes game of love, everyone is watching.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Ivy Sinclair cut her romance teeth on classics like Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, An Affair to Remember, and Sabrina. She is a firm believer in true love, a happily ever after ending, and the medicinal use of chocolate to cure any ailment of the heart. Ivy's guilty pleasures include sushi, endless Starbucks lattes, and wine. Readers of Ivy's stories can expect smoldering sweet stories of romance that tug at the heartstrings.
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Guest Post :
We all have our guilty pleasures. One of
mine, that proves useful at the most random times, is my love of entertainment
and celebrity news. Some people check their daily horoscopes or fantasy
football stats- I check up on what’s going on in Hollywood. One of the most
utilized apps on my phone (aside from Facebook, of course) is my EOnline app.
Several times a day I troll the latest entertainment headlines and oh and ah over photos from recent celebrity sightings across the globe.
If you’d ask me why I’m so intrigued with
the happenings in movie and TV land and the people who inhabit them, I wouldn’t
have a good answer. In a way it’s like asking an avid reader why they like to
read so much. You just do, and it feels at times like it’s programmed into your
DNA. It’s a hobby of sorts for me, but one I take very seriously.
I enjoy my role of being the first one in
my social circle to know the latest break-ups and hook-ups in Hollywood, what
movies have recently gotten green-lighted, and who has been cast in the next
big blockbuster movie. It makes for good happy hour conversation if nothing
else.
It’s easy to point to the reason for
celebrity watching as a kind of envious observation from afar. These beautiful
people make a living playing out fiction for our entertainment. They can choose
to be anyone they want to be, there’s the appearance that they make a lot of
money, and since we always see the same faces in front of the camera, we assume
their life is glamorous and fascinating in a way that we ordinary humans will
never experience.
But once you start peeling back the layers,
you realize that choosing to live your life in the spotlight brings just as
many negative aspects as it does positive ones. Watching an emotional Halle
Berry and Jennifer Garner testify in court in an effort to protect their
children from harassment by the paparazzi shines a much different light on the
whole topic.
That’s the level that I wanted to explore
in one of the major subplots in Grounded By You. The hero of the
story, Carter “Sam” Groveson, is plucked from obscurity to star in the film
adaptation of a well-known and loved literary novel. His life is changing
forever and he has to learn to maneuver living life in front of the cameras.
How that impacts his relationship with woman he cares about, and wants to build
a future with, is one of the main obstacles that he needs to overcome.
Ironically, a real story came out around
the casting issues for the Fifty Shades
of Grey film adaptation that showed a parallel to Grounded By You. The
original actor cast as Christian Grey decided to drop out partly due to the
pressures of being thrust into the limelight. While this isn’t exactly what
happens with Sam in the book, it was a relevant example of an actual situation
where life happened to be imitating my art.
While I enjoy the glitz and glamour stories
of Hollywood today, it’s the stories that show the human “in real life” side of
the business that truly interests me. Probably because it’s nice to know that
despite their jobs, at the end of the day, the people involved in creating
those fairy tale, fictional worlds are more like us than we give them credit
for.
The book really sounds good! Thanks for the awesome giveaway! :D
ReplyDeleteThank the author!! :)
DeleteThank you for sharing Grounded By You! I hope everyone enjoys it. :D
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome :)
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